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Recipe: Restore an Entire Nutanix AHV VM to a new location
Expected deliverables:
An entire Nutanix AHV Virtual Machine restored from a Veeam Backup to a new location or with different settings.
Time to complete: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
- A Nutanix AHV cluster added to the backup infrastructure.
- You need the VM has at least one successfully created restore point.
- A target Nutanix AHV cluster, container and network for the restored VM.
Assumptions:
You have a Veeam Backup and Replication server installed.
A VM restored from a backup of a VM from another hypervisor may become unreachable through the network. To resolve the issue, install Nutanix VirtIO drivers and Nutanix Guest Tools.
Method:
- Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console and select Home on the bottom left menu.
- Select Backups in the inventory pane, expand the necessary backup job, right-click the VM you want to restore and select Restore entire VM > Nutanix AHV.
- In the Virtual Machines step, the selected VM is listed.
- If you want to add more VMs to be recovered concurrently, click in Add -> From backup… to open the selection of available backups. Choose the desired VM from one of the backups and click Add.
- In the Virtual machines to restore list, select a VM and click in Point, to select a restore point (by default Veeam uses the latest valid restore point) and click OK. Click Next.
- In the Restore Mode step, select Restore to a new location, or with different settings and click Next.
- In the Cluster step, select the target Nutanix AHV cluster. Click Next.
- In the Storage Container step, select the target storage container. Click Next.
- In the Name step, specify a new name for the restored VM if required. Click Next.
- In the Network step, map the source network to a network in the target location, or select to disconnect the VM from the network. Click Next.
- In the Reason step, enter a reason for performing the restore and click Next.
- In the Summary step, select Power on target VM after restoring if required, review the details and click Finish.
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